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taziathegreat said:
If electromorphis is, it’s just charge as an ability.

that’s really powerfully on a bulky mon. It basically just doubles your offensive power for doing something you wanted to do anyway (take a hit)
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Well, offensive power on Electric moves, unlike Regieleki it does seem to get other moves. The second trailer shows Mud Bomb(?) and probably Hyper Voice or Uproar.
R_N said:
I'm guessing it'll have big hp but just "fine" defenses. I'm guessing something similar to Greedent
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I mean it's a Gym Leader's ace so it probably has decent stats. Also this thing being mono-Electric seems to disprove that theory people were throwing around about all the Leaders' aces being off-type Pokemon they Tera to match their type, Brassius is just a weirdo.
pecanbegone said:
oh OK Pokemon, so "Herbivorous" has to become "Sap Sipper" for the kiddies, but "Electromorphosis" is ok? I see how it is....
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Ever since gen 6 removed the character cap for move and ability names the English translators use any excuse they can get to be pretentious. Its not even called Electromorphois in Japanese, its "Electric Change".
Worldie said:
2) Having coverage and not be another Regieleki case, since without coverage you're literally just being blanketed by ground types and volt absorb
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The gameplay trailer shows it using what looks like Mud Bomb and Hyper Voice, so it probably gets all the moves you'd expect a frog Pokémon to get.
 
Could have a niche in vgc where you outspeed and hit it with a weak move (maybe a weak ground move to activate weakness policy) and then have it discharge or something.

Also:
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pecanbegone said:
oh OK Pokemon, so "Herbivorous" has to become "Sap Sipper" for the kiddies, but "Electromorphosis" is ok? I see how it is....
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Game Freak works in mysterious ways...
DrPumpkinz said:
Bellibolt's visual design isn't really doing it for me, but I like Electromorphosis (except for its name, that part blows). I like it when abilities try to breathe life into mechanics previously exclusive to niche/bad moves.
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"Electromorphosis" is a mouthful, but it doesn't bother me as such as the French name.
Short version, it's Berserk all over again, except not really, it's almost the opposite really.
Long version: In French, the Pokémon is known as "Amphibidou" (amphibian + a funny word for belly). I like this! But it's Ability name?
  • In Japanese, its signature Ability is called でんきにかえる (Electric Change).
  • In English, It is called Electromorphosis, has a name with no allusions to frogs.
  • In German, it's localized as "Dynamo".
  • In French? "Grecharge", a portmanteau of "grenouille" (frog) and "charge".
However.
The Japanese name is also a pun. It contains かえる (kaeru), which can translate as "frog".
To sum it up, I was mad until I read the Japanese source.
 
AztecCroc said:
The gameplay trailer shows it using what looks like Mud Bomb and Hyper Voice, so it probably gets all the moves you'd expect a frog Pokémon to get.
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I'd mention that Mud Bomb and Hyper Voice don't exactly count as "coverage"... :tymp:
It's going to need something like Grass Knot or Signal Beam to do anything.

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KalosianPorygon said:
  • In Japanese, its signature Ability is called でんきにかえる (Electric Change).
  • In English, It is called Electromorphosis, has a name with no allusions to frogs.
  • In German, it's localized as "Dynamo".
  • In French? "Grecharge", a portmanteau of "grenouille" (frog) and "charge".
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In Italian it's called Convertivolt which just means "volt converter", which is acceptable but I could swear I heard that name already somewhere in the franchise...
 
Worldie said:
The challenge is that this is a pure Electric pokemon, means it will very likely have to stomach potential incoming Earthquake while at same time being blanketed by ground types.

I am not 100% sure this can actually work in practice, though I can see the actual use case being hard swapping in Bellibolt on a predicted flying, steel or electric hit, then threaten back with a big stab attack meaning you'd be forcing the enemy to swap in an immunity (potentially getting a free turn to hardswap yourself or status them or hit with coverage)
This however relies on several things being present..
1) Being actually able to take 2 hits
1bis) Being able to take a hit and be fast enough to outspeed potential switchins (scarf?)
2) Having coverage and not be another Regieleki case, since without coverage you're literally just being blanketed by ground types and volt absorb
3) Actually having stats to make use of it, as the ideal spread would probably be a bulky attacker rather than pure defensive, it wouldn't matter that he gets a "free +1" if it has chansey tier attack.

We'll see. At least the idea is interesting, either ways.
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I'm not saying it will be good, just that it will probably have HP-based bulk and "okay" defenses that hypothetically works with the ability. Most typings would wind up giving it a weakness to a popularly used move, anyway.

AztecCroc said:
I mean it's a Gym Leader's ace so it probably has decent stats. Also this thing being mono-Electric seems to disprove that theory people were throwing around about all the Leaders' aces being off-type Pokemon they Tera to match their type, Brassius is just a weirdo.
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I mean there's no confirmation thsi is her ace either, though? She's not using terastalization in the footage and we don't know how many Pokemon she has. This could be a "signature" pokemon but not her ace.
 
R_N said:
I'm not saying it will be good, just that it will probably have HP-based bulk and "okay" defenses that hypothetically works with the ability. Most typings would wind up giving it a weakness to a popularly used move, anyway.
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It's what I'd expect as well. I was just wondering if there'd be any combination that would "actually" make it good, rather than just a fringe pick.

That said if its stats end up being good enough, while it may not end up seeing use in VGC due to how omnipresent Earthquake tends to be, may still be a solid mid or low tier mon.

Also... incidentally, this is one of these mons that may actually make decent use of defensive Teralyze, expecially if it has reliable recovery to perform the "switch in and retaliate hard" job multiple times. (being a blobby frog, I can actually see it having Recover)
 
Funny Mon, I like the design. Will probably be bad though if it stays pure electric (and also slow).

The important thing though is that the leaked image of Paldean Dex is at least partially false, the one frog line (judging from the names) isnt pure Electric.
 
Worldie said:
No, but incidentally it was the first thing it came to my mind when it came to "Electric with no coverage" :psysly:
Maybe it could have Sludge Bomb though (seismitoad has it after all), it basically hits same thing you'd hit with Signal Beam anyway (grass types)
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I mean it might be back? Mud Bomb was dexited too, and we've seen this thing and Pooper use it.

It might just be that all the moves that were dexited in SwSh but brought back in BDSP or PLA are being kept un-dexited though, and neither game brought Signal Beam back.
 
Count Bleck said:
Im getting some reports that Iono's VA is Fairouz Ai, who is a pretty big deal in japan allegedly. roles include: Sei Shonogan in Fate: Grand Order, Joylne in Jojo Bizzare adventure: Star Ocean, Power in Chainsaw Man, and Manatsu/Cure Summer from Precure

And in case anyone wants a visual , yeah iono fits right in
https://twitter.com/x/status/1580351867170697217
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She truly is a legend.
 
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